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Gastil, Raymond Duncan of Route 1, Box 79, Alpine; Grossmont Union High, Grossmont. Leabow, Richard Drag of 8946 Olin Street, Los Angeles; Alexander Hamilton High...
...simple and delicate story of "Torment" is given an over-all gentle treatment that, by usual film standards, could be said to drag at times. However, the producers deserve commendations for not playing up the sensational elements offered in the plot (leaving that, it would seem, to the able American press agents). "Torment" is the first intelligent filming of a non-idyllic adolescent love affair, I've seen...
...affair, running for about the nine miles along Perini's poorly-built parkway, then over the well known overpass into Wellesley to the finish line in front of the Alumnae Hall. There is one difficult hill on Route 9 which extends about half a mile. Such spectators as can drag themselves out of bed and out to Wellesley by 10:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning should stand on the hill to the left of the Quad to get the best view of the racers, and their attached bicycles...
Furthermore, brokers' own commission rates, now the highest in history, might be an added drag on the market. In a dull market, profits of even a single point had been hard to make. When made, around a third of a point of the profit on a 100-share transaction in a cheap ($10) stock went for buying & selling commissions...
...majestic shadow of the Roman Forum . . . Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar . . . One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet ... in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana" [TIME, Feb. 7]. Why drag Caesar into this Hollywood transaction? The Church of Santa Francesca Romana, built on the ancient Temple of Venus and Roma, stands at the east end of the Forum. Caesar fell in the theater of Pompey, which stood in the Campus Martius, well over a kilometer west...